[f-nsp] MLX/XMR export maps broken Bug 95587

[Ed Allen W.]

Thank you for your speedy reply. 2011 is outrageous! This is not a feature request. The command set supports the configuration but it simply doesn't work. That is a bug not a feature.

We were seriously considering purchasing a quantity of the MLX but the work arounds are as you said "quite ugly" and unacceptable to us.

Brocade/Foundry will take the loss for this lack of attention to detail.

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From: Phou-Ngan Vannaxay [phou-ngan.vannaxay at aptiwan.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:32 AM
To: Ed Allen W.
Cc: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [f-nsp] MLX/XMR export maps broken Bug 95587

Hi Ed,

The bug as described in Defect ID 95585 was (partially) fixed in release 4.0g. However, it does not fully fix the whole problem with export map RT rewrite in VRF:
- it now works between 2 PE routers
- it still does not work between 2 VRF within the same PE

Brocade has acknowledged there is a problem but is treating this as a new feature request...  And so far, the target date for the feature ("fix", I should say) in the road map is... 2011 !!
I suggest everybody who would need this feature to stress their SE Brocade and maybe Brocade will be willing to deliver the fix  sooner.

The workaround suggested by Brocade is:
- to use inter-VRF static routes if you don't have a lot of routes (which is not our case)
-  else, to use an external loop connected between the 2 VRF and run an OSPF process with filtered advertises using route-maps which is quite ugly.

Regards,


Le 25 janv. 2010 à 22:44, Ed Allen W. a écrit :

We have a pair of MLXs running Version 4.0.1b on Eval. We have tried everything we can think of to get this thing to change/add RTs on export with no success. We did find an earlier thread with the above bug ID but nothing else. We have had no word back from our Rep.

Has Foundry/Brocade given any workaround or timeframe if/when this will be fixed? Does anyone else have a potential work around to this problem?



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